The Power of the Powerless (Routledge Revivals)

Havel, Václav

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“…Whereas the democratization wave in South America (O'Donnel andSchmitter 1986, Schneider 1995) and Eastern Europe (Havel 1985, Pelcynski 1998 have led scholars to establish a positive relationship between the rise of civil society institutions and empowerment and democratization, it seems that in many other areas the rise of number of NGOs did not necessarily lead to major changes in the political regimes dominant at a time (Foley and Edwards 1996).…”

Section: The Ambivalent Role Of Civil Societymentioning

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The counter-hegemonic role of civil society: Palestinian–Arab NGOs in Israel

Jamal

2008

Citizenship Studies

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This paper deals with the causes and impact of the rise in the number of Palestinian-Arab Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Israel in the last two decades. It provides a multi-level model that combines economic, political and cultural factors to explain the shifts in Palestinian-Arab political mobilization in Israel and as a result to the rise of a complex network of Arab NGOs. The paper demonstrates the way in which the civil institutions and their intensive involvement in public social affairs generate social capital that has internal as well as external political impact. Arab civil society institutions, which operate mainly separately from civil institutions of the Jewish majority, assist in the empowerment and the development of Arab society. They provide services in different fields, such as education, health, and planning. They also advocate and lobby for the rights of the Arab citizens inside Israel and internationally. Arab civil society institutions also provide information necessary for political mobilization, identity formation, and cultural preservation. In this framework the paper claims that they play a counterhegemonic role vis-à-vis the Israeli state. However, the paper also claims that the broad advocacy and lobbying activity of Arab civil institutions did not manage to fully democratize Israeli policies towards Arab society, demonstrating the centrality of state identity and power structure when it comes to democratization processes. On a different level, the paper reveals that, although the Palestinian-Arab NGOs network has managed to lead to a liberalization process within Arab society, this process is partial and selective.

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Section: The Ambivalent Role Of Civil Societymentioning

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The counter-hegemonic role of civil society: Palestinian–Arab NGOs in Israel

Jamal

2008

Citizenship Studies

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“…6 Lukacs (1971Lukacs ( [1923) and Lefebvre (2006Lefebvre ( [1981) contend that the everyday life of the worker was consumed by capitalism, and only through this everyday life could a deeper understanding of this system be achieved (Goonewardena 2008). This resonates with the near complete infiltration of totalitarianism into everyday life described by Havel (1978), and his articulation that it is only through attention to the everyday lives of ordinary people (citing the greengrocer) that the ideological domination of this philosophy could be understood. Ideas of everyday life also circulate within critiques of capitalism centred on ideas of social reproduction and the embodiment of capitalism in the social sphere (Katz 2004;.…”

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Civil Society, Everyday Life and the Possibilities for Development Studies

Peck

2015

Geography Compass

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Civil society is one of the most contentious terms in political thought. There is considerable, and highly significant, difference between academic debate about the meaning of 'civil society' and the way the term is mobilized in international development discourse. In particular, narratives of civil society in international development are often dominated by reference to organizational descriptions and measurability.

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“….For everyone in his own way is both a victim and a supporter of the system. 22 This is brought out beautifully in the film when Dreyman tells Christa-Maria that he knows about her meetings with Minister Hempf and pleads with her not to go. You don't need him, he tells her.…”

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Post-Totalitarianism inThe Lives of Others

Taylor

2011

Perspectives on Political Science

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This article argues that The Lives of Others contains a particularly powerful portrait of what the Czech dissident-philosopher Václav Havel called "posttotalitarianism." I will explore Havel's understanding of this concept and the film's evocation of its key features. In Havel's view, these regimes preserve themselves through the principle of "social auto-totality." They make every person, every citizen, an accomplice in their own oppression. Even more troubling for Havel is that these regimes do not continue to exist because of the evil will and historical misunderstandings of their originators. He suggests these horrors "can happen and did happen only because there is obviously in modern humanity a certain tendency toward the creation, or at least the toleration, of such a system." Donnersmarck's brilliant film explores how it is that people are capable of living within a lie. This leads to a consideration of an important but heretofore unexplored question: What is the meaning of the movement of a totalitarian regime to a post-totalitarian regime? Was what seemed for many in the West to be a sign of Communism's ability to moderate itself actually the emblem of its true evil?

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The Power of the Powerless (Routledge Revivals)

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The counter-hegemonic role of civil society: Palestinian–Arab NGOs in Israel

The counter-hegemonic role of civil society: Palestinian–Arab NGOs in Israel

Civil Society, Everyday Life and the Possibilities for Development Studies

Post-Totalitarianism inThe Lives of Others

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